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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 6</span><span class="fp-text">LE COMBAT DES RATS ET DES BELETTES</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula VI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">PUGNA MURIUM ET MUSTELARUM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Vaincus par l'armée des Belettes dans ce fameux combat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">peint sur les murs de tant de tavernes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">des Rats fuyaient en tremblant et regagnaient leurs trous ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ils y entraient avec peine, cependant ils échappèrent à la mort.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les chefs, qui avaient mis sur leurs têtes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">des panaches, pour permettre, dans la mêlée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">aux soldats de les voir et de les suivre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se trouvèrent embarrassés à l'entrée de leurs demeures et furent pris par l'ennemi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le vainqueur les immola de ses dents meurtrières</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et les engloutit dans l'antre infernal de son estomac.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n115/mode/1up">p.52</a>]</span> Cum victi mures mustelarum exercitu</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">(historia quorum in tabernis pingitur)</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fugerent et artos circum trepidarent cavos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">aegre recepti tamen evaserunt necem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Duces eorum, qui capitibus cornua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">suis ligarant, ut conspicuum in proelio</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">haberent signum quod sequerentur milites,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">haesere in portis suntque capti ab hostibus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quos immolatos victor avidis dentibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">capacis alvi mersit tartareo specu.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Lorsqu'une funeste révolution vient bouleverser un état,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'élévation des grands les expose aux périls,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tandis que le pauvre trouve une facile sauvegarde dans son obscurité.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quemcumque populum tristis eventus premit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">periclitatur magnitudo principum ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">minuta <span class="fp-correction" title="plebis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">plebes</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="plebes  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">plebis</span></span> facili praesidio latet.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Combat_des_Rats_et_des_Belettes">Le Combat des Rats et des Belettes</a></div>
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